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Adding together those who are undecided, those who are spiritual but not religious, and those who are atheistic, as of a 2012 survey, 27.5% of Russians claim no particular religious affiliation. Many Russian secularists feel that the new religious establishments are now abusing the system for their own advantage despite the separation of church ...
Throughout the history of early and imperial Russia there were, however, religious movements which posed a challenge to the monopoly of the Russian Orthodox Church and put forward stances of freedom of conscience, namely the Old Believers—who separated from the Russian Orthodox Church after Patriarch Nikon's reform in 1653 (the Raskol ...
The first Catholic diocese established in Russia was the Roman Catholic Diocese of Smolensk in 1636. Smolensk covered all of Russia until the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mohilev was established by Catherine the Great in 1772 without Papal authority, but it was approved by Pope Pius VI in 1783. In 1798 the Archdiocese of Mohilev was raised to ...
In Russia, freedom of religion is provided for in Chapter 1, Article 14, [1] Chapter 2, Articles 28 [2] and 29 [3] of the 1993 constitution, which forbid the federal government from declaring a state or mandatory religion, permit the freedoms of conscience and profession of faith, and forbids state advocacy purporting superiority of any group over another on religious grounds.
A Long Walk To Church: A Contemporary History Of Russian Orthodoxy. Boulder: Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-2276-6. Kolarz, Walter (1966). Religion in the Soviet Union. New York: St. Martin's Press. OCLC 831005445. Lane, Christel (1978). Christian Religion in the Soviet Union: A Sociological Study. Albany: State University of New York Press.
After the fall of Communism, Gorbachev had given much-needed breathing room to the practice of religion in Russia, whose culture's heart is Eastern Orthodoxy, but had also opened the door indiscriminately and generally to the practice of religion. The Russian Orthodox Church believed that a new law was needed to preserve Russia against what ...
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Agafia Karpovna Lykova (Russian: Агафья Карповна Лыкова; born 17 April 1944) is a Russian Old Believer, part of the Lykov family, who has lived alone in the taiga for most of her life. As of 2016, she resides in the Western Sayan mountains, in the Republic of Khakassia.